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Another night, the Bow Street police station over the way from Covent Garden had a telephone call. Reserves, please; the crowd was getting burly. Twenty-five shilling seats ($6) had brought ten guineas ($50). People had heard that that stately young Viennese who sings Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House...
For a shilling, one is permitted to view the wax effigies of Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Lincoln and many another celebrity. At the door, stand two policemen who are standing jokes. Bobby No. 1 is asked a civil question, but declines to answer. Sometimes the inquisitor gets angry before he discovers...
* The legal tender in Britain is paper pound and ten-shilling notes. Reversion to a gold standard would not necessarily mean the abolition of paper currency, but would mean that gold could be bought and sold by private persons, which cannot be done at present.
The Author. John Masefield was born in Shropshire, England, in what year few know. He disdained school, tramped around the country till his parents indentured him to the captain of a merchant ship for the sum of a shilling a month. He sailed over a great part of the world...
YARD-WALES WINS YOUNGER SET." More dinners in the Inns that eve- ning-more mellow vintages and rare good fellowship. At the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor toasted Coolidge. Friday there were receptions at Sul- grave Manor, seat of George Washington's family; an Astor garden party; a reception in...